Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou for putting this classic document in the Wiki! 
A very minor suggestion. Perhaps you could add something about using the -j option to make to decrease compile time.  --- //[[wiki:user:allend|David Allen]] 2012/09/01 06:37//

I'd like to see this updated for versions 4,5,6 and to //safely// build proper kernel packages instead of just installing them in a way they may be hard/impossible to remove.--[[wiki:user:dchmelik]] 2023/12/24 20:05